Carin Gerhardsen writes so vividly, like she is painting with words, gripping your heart and soul in an ever-tightening tourniquet

The pages turn themselves, right up to the final startling twist

The books are fast-paced and addictive: finely tuned pieces that virtually demand to be read in one sitting

A tightly woven tale in spare but piercing prose

Moving and thought-provoking

Karin Fossum's minimalist police procedurals... have a stealthy way of mutating into richer, if also darker, psychological studies of criminals and their victims... In the end, the novel isn't about willful murder or even accidental death, but the psychological aftershocks for the living

Reading a Karin Fossum novel is always a wonderful, almost meditative, experience. Even though she writes about horrible crimes, her compassion and intelligence shine through, and by the time you reach the final page you’re left feeling irrevocably changed - for the better. Her latest, The Drowned Boy, is right up there among her best

Fossum shows us how the crime novel can be more than sheer entertainment… Well-written and gripping

Karin Fossum is among our foremost authors, regardless of genre. This because of her unique ability to create real people and her deep understanding of the human soul. She has always mastered this, but never better than in The Drowned Boy

Among Fossum’s finest novels…a strong literary quality and quivering suspense

Agatha Christie meets Rear Window...a taut psychological thriller that's chockful of chilling twists.

Clever, exciting and full of twists, this is undoubtedly the cream of this year's crop

Unputdownable . . . the new literary sensation . . . nothing short of sensational

...this unusual clammy-palmed thriller.

Hawkins juggles perspectives and timescales with great skill, and considerable suspense builds up along with empathy for an unusual central character.

Absorbing . . . refreshingly unconventional

A real page-turner.

a wholly original writer.

A thrilling plot, full of suspense.

Claustrophobic, compulsive and gripping

Intriguing ... presents enough believable suspects and motives to keep the reader gripped

What She Left leads the reader down a dark and twisty path of suspense and intrigue. This gripping and stylishly written novel left me chilled to the bone and captivated me from beginning to end

WHAT SHE LEFT is bold and inventive storytelling. The reader becomes the investigator, sorting through diary entries, letters, tweets, and emails to discover the truth beneath the tales of an entire cast of potentially unreliable narrators. This is not only a clever thriller, but an insightful exploration of identity and the personae we create in the social-media era

A faultlessly constructed, page-turning debut, Disclaimer delivers its twists and surprises with ease. It is both clever and moving, and I'm full of admiration.

It's Disclaimer that turns out to be the Gone Girl of the season

An ingenious and involving tale and a very successful first novel

Fiendishly clever

Renee Knight's stunning debut is a thriller with a particularly literary flavour, but also with a heart. Best enjoyed slowly, with no skipping to the heart-wrenchign conclusion. Terrific.

A deeply probing, intense psychological thriller that was gripping and very difficult to put down

Disclaimer forms a trinity alongside Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train as the best of domestic noir . . . Disclaimer will be climbing the bestseller list

An original plot, well-paced to its unexpected climax

A highly assured debut novel with a cracking premise . . . a remarkable well written page turner

A superior piece of dark emotional fiction that will get under your skin.

Plunges us into our worst nightmare - somebody knows our darkest secret, and they're sharing it

A finely crafted puzzle box

A brilliant premise, superbly executed. I love this book

fantastic - was absolutely gripped. Great idea, could not put it down.

Disclaimer is a real one-nighter

It's knockout

The marvel of the new suspense novel “Disclaimer” is that it lives up to its unusually gripping premise.
Disclaimer forms a trinity alongside “Gone Girl” and the “The Girl on the Train” as the best of domestic noir. That this is a first novel from Renee Knight, a British television screenwriter, makes her sure hand with what’s sinister that much more stunning.

A sensational psychological thriller

excellent debut

This bestseller is definitely one of the best thrillers of 2015.

More original and sophisticated than your average psychological thriller, Renée Knight's DISCLAIMER is an accomplished and addictive tale.